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Boeing Develops New Livery for 787 Dreamliner to Enhance Performance

Boeing has made a subtle but important change to the airplane's livery to enhance airplane performance. By developing a method for maintaining a smooth flow of air - called laminar flow - over more area on the 787 na...

11 Jul 2006

BOC Develops Cost-Effective Solutions Tailored to Improve Semiconductor Quality

Semiconductor manufacturers who need to improve productivity and performance in operations such as cleaning and soldering can work with BOC to develop cost-effective solutions tailored to improve quality, reliability and...

11 Jul 2006

Alcoa Announces Highest Revenue in Company History

Alcoa has announced second quarter 2006 income from continuing operations of $752 million, or $0.86 per diluted share, the highest quarterly profit in the company's more than 115-year history. Income from continui...

11 Jul 2006

New Understanding of Water Quality

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered new ways that ions interact with mineral surfaces in water, opening a door to new knowledge on how contaminants travel in the ...

11 Jul 2006

SunPower Announces Silicon Supply Agreement with DC Chemical

SunPower Corporation has announced that it has signed a multi-year polysilicon supply agreement with DC Chemical Co., Ltd. DC Chemical is Korea's leading chemical company with expertise producing gases used in polysi...

11 Jul 2006

Novel Materials that Grow Stiffer as they Grow Longer

Microtubules, essential structural elements in living cells, grow stiffer as they grow longer, an unexpected property that could lead to advances in nano-materials development, an international team of biophysicists has ...

11 Jul 2006

Carnegie Mellon Scientist Discovers New Material for Next Generation Supercapacitors

A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering Professor Prashant Kumta has discovered a nanocrystalline material that is cheaper, more stable and produces a higher quality...

11 Jul 2006

Coca Cola, Boots and Marks and Spencer Demonstrate Ability to Use Recycled Plastics in New Packaging Applications

Three leading high street names have demonstrated the potential to use recycled plastic in new packaging for both food and non-food products and have committed to using it in the future. The development reflects increasi...

11 Jul 2006

Saudi Aramco Select Dow Chemical as Potential Joint Venture Partner for Chemicals and Plastics Plant

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) has selected The Dow Chemical Company as its potential partner to engage in exclusive negotiations concerning a joint venture company to construct, own and operate a world-sca...

11 Jul 2006

Sandia Win R and D Award for Solid-State Fluoride-Based Battery and Compute Process Allocator

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and their collaborators have won two R&D 100 awards, which are presented by R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced ...

11 Jul 2006

Yttrium-90 being Used to Treat Liver Tumours

The University Hospital at the University of Navarra is the only centre throughout the entire Spanish state for the treatment of liver tumours by means of radioembolisation and the one with the greatest accumulated exper...

11 Jul 2006

BASF and SINOPEC Sign $4m Agreement to Expand Joint Venture in Nanjing

BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC Corp.) today signed a $500 million (4 billion RMB) agreement to expand their joint chemical Verbund site in Nanjing. The agreement was formalized by Mr. Ch...

11 Jul 2006

Kennametal Completes Acquisition of Ceramic Components Manufacturer Sintec

Kennametal Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the Sintec Group, headquartered in Buching, Germany. The purchase of Sintec, which manufactures ceramic engineered components used in the aerospace...

11 Jul 2006

Malvern Receive Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade

At a ceremony held on Friday 7 July, Mr Michael Brinton, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, presented the 2006 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade to Paul Walker, managing director o...

11 Jul 2006

MIT Scientist Develop Sophisticated Optical System Made of Mesh-Like Webs of Light-Detecting Fibers

In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers. The fiber constructs, which have a number of adva...

10 Jul 2006